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HerbTech Products
All HerbTech Brand Products are:
- Scientifically tested and analyzed to determine their effectiveness and mechanism of action
- Standardized for their bioactivity and chemical profiile to ensure batch to batch consistency.
- Extensively tested for toxicity.
- Extracted and concentrated to their optimum level of active ingredients to ensure maximum bio-availability
CV Technologies Laboratory Findings Show That Cold-FX is Significantly More Powerful Than Echinacea
A recent test of HerbTech's product Cold-FX® against a number of leading immunoboosters, provided results that pointed to Cold-FX® as clearly more effective than Echinacea in the stimulation of immune cells or lymphocytes. Lymphocytes mediate the destruction of of pathogens* or antigens** in the body. This is considered a very reliable test of effectiveness.
* any disease producing agent.
** any substance capable of inducing a specific immune response and of reacting with the products of that response.
Two major qualities for immunoboosters was tested: solubility and bioactivity. Solubility reflects how well the ingredients are absorbed by the body. Bioactivity describes how effectively the ingredients perform in the body once they have been absorbed.
Solubility was tested using the standard USP 23 Method for solubility testing. Bioactivity was determined using the lymphocyte proliferation assay which confirms whether a product is able to stimulate the proliferation of immune cells or lymphocytes.
| Product | Company | Solubility | Bioactivity |
| Cold-FX® | HerbTech | Freely Soluble | 2041.6 +/- 175.9 |
| Echinacea | Herbal Factors | Very Soluble | 316-6 +/- 31.7 |
| Sambucol® | Nature's Way | Very Soluble | 140-6 +/- 14.9 |
| Ginsana 200® | Pharmaton Natural Health Products | Soluble | 166.8 +/- 24 |
| Zinc Chelate | Natural Factors | Sparingly Soluble | 98.8 +/- 3.5 |
| Golden Seal Root | Li Chung Yun | Soluble | 57.4 +/- 8.9 |
| Olive Leaf Extract | Solaray | Soluble | 30.9 +/- 1.3 |
Results and Conclusions:
In this study, Cold-FX® was shown to be 9X more bioactive than Echinacea, and 29X more bioactive than Ginsana, Zinc Chelate, Golden Seal Root and Olive Leaf extract did not show any positive bioactivity while Sambucol showed very little.
Cold-FX® capsules
Is used as a potent immune system stimulant. Used in the acute treatment of colds and flu. Early treatment will result in more dramatic results in comparison to it's use once the cold or flu has become established.
Dosing:
3 capsules three times daily on day 1
2 capsules three times daily on day 2
1 capsule three times daily on day 3
Available in a package of 20 capsules.
HerbTech Products
AD-FX®, Menta-FX®, Pressure-FX®, Remember-FX®, Cell-FX®